Reporting: Blackout Fallout

A good reporter's nose for news is never
out of the wind. One night last week New York Timesman Martin Tolchin,
37, was visiting a friend who had just had her first baby in
Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. Health is Tolchin's regular Times
beat, and he immediately noticed a lot of unusual hustle and bustle in
the maternity ward. "I've never seen it like this before," said a
passing nurse, and she ventured a reason: the great New York City power
blackout had taken place nine months before, almost to the day.